Interactive Documentary Blog
“Out of my windows” from the Highrise project
When Canadian National Film Board launched its interactive project Highrise it called it ” a multi-year, multi-media, collaborative documentary project about the human experience in global vertical suburbs. We will use the acclaimed interventionist and participatory approaches of the award-winning National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker-in-Residence (FIR) project. Our scale will be global, but rooted firmly in the [...]
“The Wilderness Downtown” – experimenting with HTML5
September 1st, 2010
Tags: google map, google street, HTML5
Rock band Arcade Fire, together with Google and artist Chris Milk, have launched an interactive video that uses HTML5 set to the band’s track “We Used to Wait”. This experimental interactive music video is called”The Wilderness Downtown” and has nothing to do with documentary…. except for the fact that it uses HTML 5 in a [...]
Deutsche Welle TV tries webdocumentaries
August 29th, 2010
Tags: Climate, Germany, New Guinea
A reader sent me this link to what he called “Deutsche Welle’s first interactive documentary”. Saving Papua New Guinea’s Forests is an interesting webdocumentary about climate change and deforestation. Nothing particularly new in terms of form and interactive style (it actually reminds me quite a lot French webdocumentary Journey to the End of Coal) but [...]
Access All Areas symposium
May 31st, 2010
Tags: conference, DCRC, user generated content
I have just participated to the Access All Areas Symposium in Bristol. The recently created Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC) had organised a one day event around user generated content and I did a presentation on the effect of user generated content on the interactive documentary form. You can have a look to the programme [...]
A web-documentary search tool !!
May 18th, 2010
Tags: web-documentaries French
This is great news – although it is only for French speaking people: a French site that specialized on web-documentary has created a search tool that looks for interactive projects on the web! Forget Google, just use their custom made option!
Have a look to http://linterview.fr/new-reporter/le-moteur-de-recherche-du-web-documentaire/ and type any topic or location… and a list of [...]
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